SMHA published Plantation Portraits: Women of the Louisiana Cane Fields in celebration of the courage and strength of women farm workers...
The plight of sugar cane workers and SMHA’s determination to help the workers “help themselves,” was the topic of...
SMHA won a favorable US Supreme Court decision in the “Itinerant Workers Law” case. SMHA filed suit against the...
CBS broadcast a “60 Minutes” documentary with Morley Safer on the work of SMHA on sugar cane plantations, revealing...
Federal District court issued a landmark decision in the Freeman vs. Butz case where the wages of farm...
SMHA started adult basic education and job training with culturally adapted materials for plantation workers. A graduate went on...
SMHA began self-help, low-income housing efforts, including the first neighborhood association called “Rabbit Hill” in Abbeville, Louisiana. From SMHA’s...
A multiplicity of factors were at the origin of Southern Mutual Help Association in the Summer of 1969. These...
